"Tim Cook Could Run Apple Another 10 Years" 24/7 Wall St. 6:57 AM
"Apple, Microsoft Fight For Financial Crown: Apple and Microsoft are the world's two most valuable companies, though neither is currently close to Microsoft's peak value from the dot-com era." InformationWeek 4:10 PM
"Apple... biggest of them all: Daniel Ernst, Hudson Square Research, discusses how the tech giant grew into the world's largest company and is still growing." CNBC Videos 9:07 AM
"Apple Adds UnionPay Payment Option for App Store Customers in China" Apple 6:59 AM
"Apple's China app store now open for UnionPay card payments" Reuters 8:19 AM
"Apple Just Made A Deal That Should Put App Store Sales On Steroids" Business Insider 8:12 AM
"Apple notches App Store deal with China's UnionPay" CNET 8:13 AM
"Apple app store taps large Chinese banking card provider UnionPay" PCWorld 8:11 AM
"Apple's mobile App Store puchases get big boost in China with UnionPay deal" VentureBeat 8:11 AM
"Apple + IBM Enterprise Project ready to mobilize" TechnologyTell 11:54 AM
"Sue Wagner Joins Apple's Board of Directors: Bill Campbell Retiring After 17 Years of Service/Apple® today announced that Susan L. Wagner, founding partner and director of BlackRock, has been elected to Apple's board of directors. Bill Campbell, the board's longest-serving member, is retiring after 17 years of service." Apple 1:01 PM
"Get SendEmail working with Yosemite and Mavericks" Amsys 8:14 AM
"Want to 'rip' your Blu-ray disks? Try Leawo Blu-ray Ripper for the Mac" Apple Daily Report 7:56 AM
"How to enable SMS/MMS relay on your Mac" iSource 8:20 AM
"How to share your location from OS X" MacIssues 10:04 AM
"OS X Yosemite: Set Safari's Search Engine to DuckDuckGo" The Mac Observer 9:46 AM
"Free: What Every Mac User Needs To Browse The Web Faster, Easier, Funner" NoodleMac 6:57 AM
"Why Not Sync The Clipboard Between Each Of Apple's Devices?" TeraTalks 6:57 AM
"This Mac App Helps You Live Longer" Mac 360 6:57 AM
"Try A 'Tweener' Screen Capture-To-Video Utility App On Your Mac" BohemianBoomer 6:57 AM
"Why Every Mac Needs A Little Snitch" Mac 360 6:57 AM
Op/Ed
"Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite update is a winner/Summary: I questioned my sanity after upgrading to Yosemite a few days ago because of the extremely sluggish performance. Today I updated to 10.10.1 and am happy again." ZDNet 8:01 PM
"People Are Using Apple Pay A Lot, According To Retailers" Digital Trends 8:21 AM
"You know where Apple Pay is getting used a LOT? Yes - McDonalds" The Register 8:11 AM
"Apple Pay is finally doing what other NFC mobile payment solutions couldn't" BGR 8:21 AM
"Q&A: Alibaba Senior Executive On Apple, M&A and U.S. Plans" WSJ Blogs 8:20 AM
"Alibaba exec sheds more light on possible Apple partnership over payments in China" iMore 8:20 AM
"Alibaba agreement could give Apple Pay easier path past Chinese regulators" AppleInsider 8:39 AM
"Apple Seeking Better Customer, Employee Insights" ifoAppleStore 8:13 AM
"Apple Retail Making Gift Card and Uniform Changes for Holiday Shopping Season" MacRumors 10:51 AM
"Apple retail gift cards arrive in third-party stores for the holidays, in-store Beats repairs begin tomorrow" 9to5Mac 11:19 AM
"Microsoft continues MacBook bashing in latest Surface Pro 3 ad for the holidays" 9to5Mac 8:40 AM
"Apple gets ready for the holiday shopping season with new gift cards and uniforms" TUAW 4:06 PM
"Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa is the hero of Aaron Sorkin's film: Real-life Lisa didn't participate in Isaacon's bio but spoke with Sorkin about the script" The Verge 12:39 PM
"Watching a neon sign of the Apple logo being made is hypnotic" Cult of Mac 8:43 AM
Non-Apple News
"AT&T promo gives subscribers 15GB of data for the price of 10GB" AppleInsider 7:14 PM
"New York City green-lights the use of Chromebooks in public schools" Engadget 11:18 AM
"Verizon Wireless just made it more expensive to cancel your contract" Macworld 10:54 AM
"Nokia Is 'Up to Something' – What is This Black Box?" TechnoBuffalo 10:53 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Gaucho Software's Mike Piatek-Jimenez Brings Seasonality Go to the iPhone" MacVoices 1:26 PM
"Samsung strikes chip deal with Apple: Chip giant partners with GlobalFoundries to fabricate Apple chips" The Korea Times 9:03 AM
"Report: Apple chooses Samsung to supply 80 percent of A-Series mobile processors" iDownload Blog 9:03 AM
"Apple Just Delivered Samsung A Big Win" Business Insider 9:03 AM
"Korea Times claims Samsung will be lead supplier for next year's A-series chips" 9to5Mac 10:04 AM
"Rumor: Apple taps rival Samsung to build majority of A-series chips starting next year" AppleInsider 10:04 AM
"MFi Summit Shenzhen: Apple begins accepting product plans for HomeKit accessories" 9to5Mac 3:59 PM
"Apple Releases iOS 8.1.1, Improves Performance with iPad 2 and iPhone 4s" The Mac Observer 12:31 PM
"Apple releases iOS 8.1.1, includes performance improvements for older iPhones, iPads" ZDNet 4:05 PM
"iOS 8.1.1 is out with bug fixes and performance improvements for iPad 2 and iPhone 4s" iDownload Blog 12:34 PM
"Apple Releases iOS 8.1.1 With Bug Fixes, Performance Improvements for iPad 2 and iPhone 4s" MacRumors 12:41 PM
"iOS 8.1.1 Update Is Here: What's New?" Tapscape 3:52 PM
"Apple's iPhone 6 is THREE times more popular than the 6 Plus - but fewer people are ditching Android for iOS" Daily Mail (UK) 8:41 AM
"87 percent of the top 100 paid iOS apps available as hacked versions" BetaNews 8:42 AM
"You might have to wait even longer for the 5K Retina iMac of your dreams" BGR 9:24 PM
"Apple informing some Retina iMac orders of 'unexpected delays', shipments pushed back ahead of holidays" 9to5Mac 9:08 AM
"The iPad had 56.3% of China's tablet market in quarter three" Apple Daily Report 8:58 AM
"Apple TV (3rd Gen) Updated to 7.0.2, No Patch Notes" The Mac Observer 12:31 PM
AppleCare/Helps
"Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes: You can use iCloud or iTunes to back up the content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. When you have a backup, you can restore this content to your device anytime." Apple Support 5:08 PM
"About the security content of Apple TV 7.0.2" Apple Support 5:08 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Crowman & Wolfboy For iPhone/iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $2.99)" Apple Sliced 10:05 AM
"Translate Photo -Camera Scanner, PDF, OCR Document Grabber & Translator For iPhone/iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $4.99)" Apple Sliced 10:05 AM
"Timegg Pro For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)" Apple Sliced 10:05 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:55 AM
"Golfinity Review: This endless golfer presents infinite courses suspended in 3D space that incorporate ramps, stairs, holes, and more to infinitely challenge players." 148Apps 10:54 AM
"Briquid Mini Review: Briquid Mini is more Briquid, just smaller." 148Apps 11:19 AM
"Mighty Smighties Review: Simple card gaming ensures that Mighty Smighties is a good introduction to a popular concept." 148Apps 8:40 AM
"Rapture – World Conquest Review: Millennia turn to minutes in this frantic strategy game." 148Apps 12:35 PM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to turn on iCloud backup on your iPhone or iPad" iMore 3:59 PM
"How to remotely delete all of your Apple Pay credit cards if your iPhone is stolen" BGR 12:35 PM
"How to take dependable notes with the iPhone and iPad" Gigaom 9:08 AM
"Caps Lock driving you nuts? Here's how to disable it in a hurry" Macworld 8:40 AM
"How To Enable Slo-Mo Feature On Unsupported iOS 8 iPhone And iPad" Redmond Pie 8:38 AM
Tips
"15 Useful Pages at Apple.com Your Might Not Know About" MacMost 9:15 AM
"iOS 8: 8 tips for taking better photographs" Computerworld 8:59 AM
"Sony Announces the Exmor RS™, the Industry's First*1 Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with an Image Plane Phase Detection Signal Processing Function for High-Speed AF" Sony 7:23 PM
"WhatsApp Messenger gets support for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus" iMore 4:05 PM
"'UIRotation8' Brings Gesture-based UI Rotation to Your iOS 8 Devices" Modmyi 11:55 AM
"Introducing VirusBarrier for iOS 8, Intego's All-New Antivirus and Malware Scanner for iPhone and iPad" Intego 10:52 AM
"Our External of the Year Just Went Portable with the ThunderBay 4 Mini, Delivering Big Performance in a Small Footprint - Now up to 8TB with Sustained Speeds of up to 1,284MB/s!" Other World Computing 10:50 AM
"Kairos T-BAND Smart Band: Make Any Watch a Smart Watch" The Mac Observer 9:46 AM
"This addictive iOS game is made entirely out of emoji" Cult of Mac 9:04 AM
"Microsoft does it again, botches KB 2992611 SChannel patch" InfoWorld 9:34 AM
"Microsoft warns of problems with Schannel security update" ZDNet 8:13 AM
"Registry Hack Allows Users To Enable Task Bar Search Box In Windows 10 Build 9879" Microsoft News 9:32 AM
"Microsoft Goes Windows-less With Intune MDM Updates" eWeek 7:01 PM
"Deutsche Bank Setting Up Innovation Labs With IBM, Microsoft" WSJ Blogs 9:37 AM
"Facebook takes aim at LinkedIn, Google, and Microsoft with Facebook at Work" TechSpot 9:31 AM
"Six takeaways from Microsoft's open sourcing of .NET/Summary: Microsoft announces its .NET framework will be an open-source offering. This may be good news for Platform as a Service advocates." ZDNet 6:53 PM
"HP rolls out Vertica for SQL, enterprise analytics on Hadoop" ZDNet 11:04 AM
"HP plugs the Vertica analytics engine into Hadoop: HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop promises to pair the reliability of SQL with the scalability of Hadoop" Computerworld New Zealand 7:24 PM
"Intel to Combine PC, Mobile Chip Groups: Intel Move Creates New 'Client Computing' Group" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:04 PM
"Much ado about supercomputers, and what it means for big data" Fortune 12:22 PM
"In Pictures: How 41 tech companies got their names/From Apple to Amazon to Microsoft to Twitter, the names of some of the world's most popular tech companies tend to have interesting and significant backstories." Computerworld New Zealand 7:23 PM
"What do you get from a $199 PC? More than you might expect/Summary: HP's new dirt-cheap Windows laptop looks like a Chromebook and is practically the same dimensions as a MacBook Air. Just don't call it a netbook." ZDNet 9:25 PM
"AAPL and GOOG – Stick with the best, forget the rest" MarketWatch 1:54 PM
Industry News
"Stocks mixed: S&P 500 notches new closing high" USA Today 4:14 PM
Apple News
"Apple rises above $800 pre-split price" MarketWatch 9:04 AM
"RBC raises Apple price target to $120, predicts Apple Watch will earn $10B in first-year revenue" AppleInsider 8:13 AM
"JAT Capital raises its position in Apple" Market Realist 8:18 AM
"Will Apple Stock Be Affected Today by This Analyst Action?" TheStreet 9:03 AM
Industry News
"Apple touches all-time high, as tech stocks advance: Tech stocks looked to start the week on an upbeat note Monday, with gains coming from sector leaders such as Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc." MarketWatch 10:36 AM
"Stocks mixed: S&P 500 notches new closing high" USA Today 4:14 PM
"Stock Market Today: Japan Recession Keeps Markets From Celebrating Deals Deluge" TheStreet 4:14 PM
"Market Snapshot: S&P 500 Registers 42nd Record Close In Skittish Market" Nasdaq 4:13 PM
"Wall Street Slides After Japan Enters Recession: U.S. stocks dipped on Monday, following four consecutive weeks of gains on Wall Street, as energy shares fell alongside crude futures after Japan slipped into recession." Reuters 12:13 PM
"S&P 500 Ekes Out Record Close: Investors Track Comments From Japan and Europe on Possible Stimulus Measures" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:13 PM
"Asia Markets: Japanese stocks suffer as economy falls into recession/Japanese stocks suffered their worst daily drop in more than three months, as the economy entered a recession unexpectedly in the third quarter." MarketWatch 7:36 AM
"Europe Markets: European stocks latch onto gains on Draghi stimulus talk/Talk of possible bond purchases by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi appeared to help equities shake off earlier losses, following news of an unexpected contraction in Japan." MarketWatch 12:11 PM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 2:53 PM
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